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I agree within distinct limits.

Submitted by casseia on Wed, 2007-09-05 00:30.

Last year while working on the World Can't Wait debacle, I met an (apparently white) woman wearing a hijab and a sweatshirt that said "This is what a radical feminist Muslim looks like."  I soooo wanted her to be my friend.  We did some work together and I found out that she and her sons had recently moved back to the US and one boy was attending public highschool and was named Osama.  Bummer.  Anyway, I had recently read Irshad Manji's "The Trouble with Islam" and thought it would make great conversational material while we were flyering together.  (Manji is a Canadian lesbian feminist Muslim.)  This woman just shut me down instantly -- she was of the opinion that Manji was not qualified to say a damn thing about Islam because she was basically outside of the community.  So, agree or disagree, but when push came to shove (actually it didn't come close to push OR to shove -- it was quite polite) I was not going to tell her anything about her own religion.

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